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Language of Description: German
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  1. Zbierka IX. Nacistické okupačné jednotky

    • Collection IX. Nazi Occupation Forces

    Collection contains various documents dedicated to the activities of Nazi occupation forces which were operating in Slovakia after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising on August 29, 1944. Suppression of the armed uprising, which dominantly took place in the Central Slovakia with the center in the city of Banská Bystrica, was accompanied also by the massive and intentional persecution of the rest of the Jewish community in the Slovak territory. Material includes numerous information about mass executions in Kremnička and also about the later exhumation of the mass grave as well as th...

  2. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers

    1. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski collection

    The Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Zbigniew Piotrowski, his family’s life in Toruń and Gdynia before World War II and in Warsaw during the war, his father’s furniture workshops, his service on the MS Batory after the war, his immigration to the United States, and his service in the US Army Signal Corps in the 1950s. Biographical materials include Zbigniew’s birth certificate and student ID card; his parents’ marriage certificate; Warsaw shelter instructions; a postcard Zbigniew wrote from his hiding place in Trzebinia to his ...

  3. Zimno, panie! It's Cold, Sir!

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    In Sachsenhausen, a number of upper-class Poles sought to preserve their social advantages by courting favors from the camp command. Kulisiewicz rebukes two such prisoners-"Lulusinski" and the "Count"-in this brief song from 1944. Both "aristocrats" had betrayed members of the Polish Communist underground to the Reich Criminal Police Office, leading to the arrest of several inmates. In turn, other camp elites denounced Kulisiewicz to the authorities for writing and performing his derisive song. He was removed from his barrack in the middle of the night in February, 1945, and interrogated by...

  4. Zipper Conducts Dachau-Lied

    1. Music study collection

    Dr. Zipper conducts the Dachau Song with words by Jura Soyfer at the September 1988 Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz. Playwright Jura Soyfer and composer Herbert Zipper, active in Viennese antifascist cabaret, were arrested by the Gestapo after the German-Austrian Anschluss of 1938. They met again at Dachau, where both toiled as “horses,” hauling cartloads of heavy stone throughout the camp. Soyfer and Zipper wrote Dachau Song [Dachau-Lied] in September 1938 as an ironic response to the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes Freedom) inscribed on the gate at the entrance to the camp. Initiall...

  5. Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt...

  6. Zusammenstellungen der von den Staatspolizeilleitstellen gemeldeten Festnahmen innerhalb des Zeitraumes von Januar 44 bis Juni 44. - Schriftwechsel, Gestapo Koblenz, März 1943 - März 1945.

    1. Gestapo
    2. Akten der Gestapo und Informationen über die Gestapo

    Zusammenstellungen der von den Staatspolizeilleitstellen gemeldeten Festnahmen innerhalb des Zeitraumes von Januar 44 bis Juni 44.Schriftwechsel, Gestapo Koblenz, März 1943 - März 1945.

  7. Zvi and Eva Schloss papers

    1. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    Consists of postcards and an envelope from the collection of Zvi and Eva Schloss. Includes two postcards, dated 1934-1935, and one envelope, all sent by Meier Schloss [Zvi Schloss's father] while he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp to his family in Ingolstadt, Germany. Also includes one 1939 French national lottery ticket, one 50 kronen piece of Terezin ghetto scrip, and one 1914 postcard from World War I featuring a map depicting anthropomorphic representations of the belligerent nations.

  8. Zwangsarbeitslager Tiefenort 1944/45

    1. Nachlässe
    2. Nabholz, Walter

    Unterlagen zur Zeit im Zwangsarbeitslager, sowie Unterlagen zu Entschädigungssachen Walter Nabholz: Ab ins Salzbergwerk! Meine Gestapo-Haft im Zwangsarbeitslager Tiefenort a.d.Werra. 19. Oktober 1944 bis Ostern 1945 (Niederschrift/Memoiren, masch.), geschrieben 2003, sowie Nachtrag bezüglich Besuch in Tiefenort 1990, geschrieben 1990; amtliche Dokumente und Korrespondenz: schriftliche Anweisung der SA an Walter Nabholz, 22. August 1942; Antwortschreiben Walter Nabholz, 05. September 1942; Schreiben an SA, 07. September 1942; Aufforderung vom Oberbürgermeister zum Arbeitseinsatz, 28. Januar ...

  9. Zwienicki family papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The papers consist of letters received by the Zwienicki family [donor's family] in Nazi Germany and following the Holocaust.

  10. Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard

    Zygmunt Jastrzębski wrote the postcard in Buchenwald concentration camp addressed to his sister, Hania Jastrzębska. In the postcard he writes that he is well and asks for news.

  11. Zyzniewski family papers

    1. Zyzniewski family collection

    The Zyzniewski family papers relate the experiences of the Zyzniewski family in Łódź, Poland during World War II. The Zyzniewski family was a Catholic and active in the Polish resistance. The papers contain identification documents for Zygmunt Zyzniewski, Janina Zyzniewski, and their son Wiesław Kazimierz Zyzniewski (later Wesley Zineski). The correspondence was written by Janina and Wesley during their imprisonments in Radogoszcz prison and Auschwitz concentration camp, 1942-1942. The papers also contain photographs and two photograph albums of the Zyzniewski family with unidentified frien...

  12. Австрийский союз еврейских легитимистов (г. Вена)

    • Verband der jüdischen Legitimisten österreichs (Wien)
    • Records of the Verband der jüdischen Legitimisten Österreichs (Association of Jewish Legitimists of Austria), Vienna

    The records of Fond 1189 contains materials related to the activities of the Union of Austrian Jewish legitimists, its board, and departments: the youth group, the legitimist Union of Jewish Women, the legitimist Jewish Veterans organization, and the editorial Office of the newspaper "Legitimist” the organ of the Union of Austrian Jewish Legitimists. Deposited in the collection are charter documents; minutes of general assembles of the union and of meetings of its board; correspondence with affiliated Jewish organizations and with organizations of war veterans and other organizations; finan...

  14. Архівне управління Полтавського окружного виконавчого комітету рад робітничих, селянських та червоноармійських депутатів

    • Collection of Archival Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs in Poltava oblast (region)
    • Arkhivne upravlinnia Poltavskoho okruzhnoho vykonavchoho komitetu rad robitnychykh, selianskykh ta chervonoarmiiskykh deputativ

    Opys 20 (Inventory 20). Reference lists about members of political parties, White Guard members, gendarmes, Red Army deserters, and persons employed in the authorities during the German-Fascist occupation. Selected files related to the Nazi occupation period: File 1 – Clergy who served German occupiers in the churches of Poltava region, 8 pages. File 4a – Germans who lived in the region during the occupation of 1941-43, 17 pages. File 5 – Staff of gendarmerie during the German occupation, 10 pages. File 6 – Employees of district (raion) and agricultural commandant's offices, 38 pages. File ...

  15. Бюро имперского протектора в Богемии и Моравии (г. Прага)

    • Records of the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, Prague
    • Büro des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren (Prague)

    Contains a March 1941 monthly situation report of the head of the SD in Prague that mentions the emigration and "resettlement" of Jews. Also included are letters to other German authorities that include a listing of all leadership offices, statistics on German nationals, and the reestablishment of Deutschtum ("Germanness") in the Protectorate.

  16. Главное управление имперской безопасности Германии (РСХА) (г. Берлин)

    • Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (Berlin); Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) (Berlin)
    • Glavnoe upravlenie imperskoi bezopasnosti Germanii (RSKhA) (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in six inventories. Inventories no. 1, 2, and 6 are arranged by structure and chronology, and catalogue documents of departments I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the RSHA. Inventories no. 3, 4, and 5 are arranged by document type. These inventories catalogue orders, edicts, directives, instructions, accounts, surveys, reports, dispatches, employee directories, surveillance files, and correspondence of the Reich Security Main Office and its subordinate entities regarding the issues indicated. RSHA documents include orders, edicts, and other regulatio...

  17. Еврейская община (г. Афины)

    • Juive communauté (Athènes)
    • Jewish Community of Athens, Greece

  18. Еврейская община (г. Берлин)

    • Jüdische Gemeinde (Berlin)
    • Records of Jewish Community, Berlin

  19. Еврейская община (г. Салоники)

    • Juive communauté (Salonique)
    • Records of Jewish Community of Salonika, Greece

  20. Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)

    • Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
    • Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other...